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Jews commonly refer to the Land of Israel as "The Holy Land" (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ הַקוֹדֵשׁ Eretz HaKodesh). [12] The Tanakh explicitly refers to it as "holy land" in Zechariah 2:16. [13] The term "holy land" is further used twice in the deuterocanonical books (Wisdom 12:3, [14] 2 Maccabees 1:7). [15]
Mapping the Holy Land: The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85772-785-5. Levy-Rubin, Milka; Rubin, Rehav (1996). "The Image of the Holy City: Maps and Mapping of Jerusalem". In Nitza Rosovsky (ed.). City of the Great King: Jerusalem from David to the Present. Harvard University Press.
The map was made by de Angelis's successor as the official Franciscan mapmaker. The work was published in 1620 in a detailed survey of the Holy Land Trattato delle Piante & Imagini de Sacri Edificii di Terra Santa, disegnate in Gierusalemme [Treatise on the Plans & Images of Sacred Buildings of the Holy Land, drawn in Jerusalem]. [44] [47] 1621 ...
The First Critical Overview of Printed and Unprinted Descriptions of Travels to the Holy Land"). Wajntraub, Eva; Wajntraub, Gimpel (1992). Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land. Brüder Hollinek. ISBN 978-3-85119-248-3. Wood, Denis (16 April 2010). "Mapmaking, Counter-Mapping, and Map Art in the Mapping of Palestine". Rethinking the Power of Maps ...
Jerusalem on the Madaba Map. The Madaba Map, also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map, is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan.. The mosaic map depicts an area from Lebanon in the north to the Nile Delta in the south, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Eastern Desert.
The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland. Verso Books. ISBN 978-1-84467-947-8. Schweid, Eliezer. The Land of Israel: National Home Or Land of Destiny, translated by Deborah Greniman, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1985. ISBN 978-0-8386-3234-5. Sedykh, Andreĭ. This Land of Israel, Macmillan, 1967. Stewart, Robert Laird.
Scale model of Jerusalem, with the Herod's Temple in foreground, during the Second Temple period (c. first century CE), now in Israel Museum.. The Holyland Model of Jerusalem, also known as Model of Jerusalem at the end of the Second Temple period (Hebrew: דגם ירושלים בסוף ימי בית שני) is a 1:50 scale model of the city of Jerusalem in the late Second Temple period.
Way of the Patriarchs (blue) with Via Maris (purple) and King's Highway (red) The Road of the Patriarchs or Way of the Patriarchs (Hebrew: דֶּרֶךְ הֲאָבוֹת Derech haʾAvot Lit. Way (of) the Fathers) is an ancient north–south route traversing the land of Israel and the region of Palestine. [1]